Congrats to Aaron on his graduation!!! What an achievement. I hope your family is healthy and gets to celebrate this moment with him.
I enjoyed listening to the TCT conference as I recovered from my c section. You were so encouraging and relatable. I appreciated your humor and honesty. I so relate to the perfectionist temptation to "change everything in my life, I'll just focus super hard and do it perfectly" and then fail and give up. 🫣 You're helping parents make actual progress by naming this pattern and showing another (beautiful and more realistic and healthy) way.
Adam Taylor's talk really stood out to me, I was struck by the impact of the weekly "formal lunch" at the small high school he mentioned, with the same bagged lunches the students always brought, but with plates and silverware, and how that "environment" wordlessly caused students to elevate their behavior and "plate" their lunches in an attractive way, even if it was Cheetos. How can I give my children an environment where they're still free to be themselves, but by engaging with their prepared environment they encounter the good, the true, and the beautiful for themselves?
The new podcast conversation with Autumn Kern might be my favorite episode in ages, and I like every episode of the Reading Revisited podcast! Thank you to you guys and Autumn! I loved everything she shared about looking to books for models (in the healthy "end of Northanger Abbey, extrapolating" way, not in an exact, "trying to control my family and getting frustrated when they fail to act like the imaginary book characters did" way (...see your TCT talk for how that goes 😅)) and reverse engineering to get the outcome you want. This episode also gave me better context for Autumn's work, which I've encountered only fairly recently (I'm in her Mother Academia cohort this year, reading books together and discussing them on a closed forum and on zoom calls- it's been super fun, would recommend to a friend).
Looking forward to the Hound of the Baskervilles discussion! I'm just starting my reread and it has been chuckling already. Detective fiction really is a comfort object for me.
Congrats to Aaron on his graduation!!! What an achievement. I hope your family is healthy and gets to celebrate this moment with him.
I enjoyed listening to the TCT conference as I recovered from my c section. You were so encouraging and relatable. I appreciated your humor and honesty. I so relate to the perfectionist temptation to "change everything in my life, I'll just focus super hard and do it perfectly" and then fail and give up. 🫣 You're helping parents make actual progress by naming this pattern and showing another (beautiful and more realistic and healthy) way.
Adam Taylor's talk really stood out to me, I was struck by the impact of the weekly "formal lunch" at the small high school he mentioned, with the same bagged lunches the students always brought, but with plates and silverware, and how that "environment" wordlessly caused students to elevate their behavior and "plate" their lunches in an attractive way, even if it was Cheetos. How can I give my children an environment where they're still free to be themselves, but by engaging with their prepared environment they encounter the good, the true, and the beautiful for themselves?
The new podcast conversation with Autumn Kern might be my favorite episode in ages, and I like every episode of the Reading Revisited podcast! Thank you to you guys and Autumn! I loved everything she shared about looking to books for models (in the healthy "end of Northanger Abbey, extrapolating" way, not in an exact, "trying to control my family and getting frustrated when they fail to act like the imaginary book characters did" way (...see your TCT talk for how that goes 😅)) and reverse engineering to get the outcome you want. This episode also gave me better context for Autumn's work, which I've encountered only fairly recently (I'm in her Mother Academia cohort this year, reading books together and discussing them on a closed forum and on zoom calls- it's been super fun, would recommend to a friend).
Looking forward to the Hound of the Baskervilles discussion! I'm just starting my reread and it has been chuckling already. Detective fiction really is a comfort object for me.
Aaron says thank you! It’s been such a good program. Maybe I should have linked Benedictine College in the Miscellany!
And the conference was so great! So happy my talk resonated! And loved the other talks!
And isn’t Autumn just delightful?
I haven’t read any Sherlock Holmes before. Can I start with Hounds of Baskerville or will that ruin the ones that come before it in the series?
Definitely just jump in! These can definitely be read out of order!